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Month: February 2011

Populus has the gap down to just three points

Populus has the gap down to just three points

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Poll/Publication Date CON % LAB % LD % Populus/Times 06/02/11 36 39 11 Populus/Times 24/10/10 37 38 15 Populus/Times 12/09/10 39 37 14 Populus/Times 23/06/10 39 33 18 A second traditional phone pollsters shows a very different picture We’ve now had the first Populus national voting intention poll since October and the picture it paints is broadly the same as with last week’s Guardian ICM poll. Both Populus and ICM operate in a very similar manner so it’s no surprise…

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Is politics the battle of the generations?

Is politics the battle of the generations?

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Which one of the following two options do you think would be best for Britain? (ICM) all 18-24 % 25-34 % 35-44 % 45-54 % 55-64 % 65+ % A coalition of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats 32 21 25 27 30 36 47 Labour governing in its own right 26 24 31 29 28 25 20 Neither 29 37 29 29 33 28 24 Dont’ Know 12 17 16 15 10 11 8 We’ve now got the detail…

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Will EdM’s move be more helpful to YES than to NO?

Will EdM’s move be more helpful to YES than to NO?

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Guardian Should Clegg remain invisible for the entire campaign? The Guardian is reporting this morning that Ed Miliband has told the YES campaign that he will not share a platform with Nick Clegg because he believes that the Lib Dem leader is so toxic to Labour supporters that it could affect the outcome. Apparently the Labour leader is happy to share platforms with other prominent Lib Dems – Ashdown/William/Kennedy etc – but not the leader. Given the way that Labour…

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Jonathan asks: “What’s Labour’s big idea”?

Jonathan asks: “What’s Labour’s big idea”?

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His latest Sunday evening column In Gateshead this week, Labour took another step on its journey to discover fresh political ideas. It is an objective that it is easy to say, but hard to achieve. If there has been a trend post-Thatcher, it is that politics has become more consensual, focussing on fewer ideas. Is Labour seriously attempting to reverse this trend? Can it really discover something fresh and create a winning formula? Labour starts from square one. They have…

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Boost for coalition in new ICM poll

Boost for coalition in new ICM poll

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News of the World (£) But what does this new format really mean? There’s a new ICM poll reported in today’s News of the World (£) which does not apparently include a voting intention question. Instead the phone pollster asked a sample of 2,036 which of these would be best for Britain – Con/Lib Dem coalition (32%); Labour (26%); Neither (29%); Don’t know (12%). This has not been asked before in this format so we have nothing to compare it…

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Is this following the now standard Telegraph tradition?

Is this following the now standard Telegraph tradition?

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Telegraph Will Craig’s tax affairs embarrass Cameron? Bang on target and totally true to form the Telegraph welcomes Number 10’s new communications chief, Craig Oliver with a close look at his financial affairs. For whenever a new figure emerges on the political scene the paper runs stories like this. Some of them, like those about David Laws, can have a big impact – others like the missives about his replacement, Danny Alexander, get forgotten about in a couple of days….

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Should Khan have attacked Cameron in the way he did?

Should Khan have attacked Cameron in the way he did?

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Was he right to say Dave was “writing propaganda for the EDL”? The big ongoing row this weekend has been Cameron’s speech in Munich in which he’s attacked “state multiculturalism” in his first major statement as PM on the causes of terrorism. The UK, he argued, needed a stronger national identity to prevent groups turning to extremism. In one controversial passage on how Muslim civil organisations should be judged Cameron asked: “Do they believe in universal human rights – including…

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Are the NHS reforms just a sticking plaster?

Are the NHS reforms just a sticking plaster?

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What would real reform look like? The events in Egypt might have dominated the news this week but it’s domestic politics that determines the results of elections unless British citizens or troops are directly involved. In that respect, the most significant policy debate this year so far has been around the future of the NHS. It has been said by those on both sides that the government is proposing the most radical reforms in the Service’s more than six decades…

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